In this fourth and final course of the specialization, you will synthesize your learning into a project deliverable called a Blockchain Opportunity Analysis. The goals of this course are twofold: One, it’s for you to identify a specific need or problem in your chosen industry that can potentially be solved using blockchain technology. Two, it’s for you to investigate possible solutions to this problem, including how these solutions might be executed. You will accomplish different project milestones each week, and will be introduced to several tools that entrepreneurs use to organize their findings. Throughout this process, you will hear from real-world practitioners who have hands-on experience in the blockchain ecosystem. Additionally, by participating in this course you will gain access to our Blockchain Case Commons—a crowdsourced collection of blockchain applications and use-cases spanning multiple industries. As an outcome of this course, you’ll walk away with a consolidated, peer-reviewed Blockchain Opportunity Analysis, which you can use to pitch your idea to your organization or even to potential investors.

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VB

It was an excellent course, it was designed and structured in a nice cohesive manner, the content was lucid and facilitated by the instructor in a very effective manner with the help of examples.

RG

Jan 06, 2020

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Very well designed and ample use cases in case commons to learn from!

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Opportunity Identification

When identifying opportunities for blockchain technology within your chosen market, it is important to understand the kinds of problems that it can and cannot solve—at least in its current state. In this module, you will learn to distinguish between problems that are and are not well-suited to blockchain-based solutions. After considering various opportunities for blockchain technology within your chosen market segment, you will learn how to use a decision matrix to select the most promising idea to pursue for your final project. By the end of this week, you will clarify the purpose and objectives of your project, you will identify your target customers/audience, and you will prepare a statement of need and statement of benefit for your proposal.

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Don Tapscott

Alex Tapscott

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Tell me a bit more about your experience with Cipher Board and also why you decided to move on to different roles and challenges. So we started Cipher Board back in 2015. I was already working with a bigger another startup enabling payments to go via social networks. So we would work with different banks and enable remittance corridors to send payments via WhatsApp, Skype, Facebook. We quickly realized that a keyboard might be a more ideal way because you don't need to integrate in all these social networks and you work across all the different social networks altogether. We were blessed to have intercommunity behind us. A couple of our investors are all interior alums and it's great. Earlier promise of Blockchain and Crypto assets was essentially to transfer value from person A to person B across the planet, really cheaply. If we see the buzz has actually inflated the asset prices. So people started hoarding tokens and holding them rather than using them to transfer. This has affected us as Cipher Board to lower the transaction volumes because people were holding onto their tokens and not really sending them across. So Cipher Board is still life. There's still users in the thriving community but the growth was not there. The transaction volume was not there.